October 5, 2020
While compliance officers have been focusing on compliance with NCAA rules and regulations within the athletic departments of major colleges and universities for decades, only recently […]
August 31, 2020
More than a year ago, federal investigators alleged that California-based Key Worldwide Foundation (KWF), a public charity, used payments from wealthy donors to hide immense sums […]
August 17, 2020
To have an effective compliance program, you must have an effective Hotline program. The operative word is “effective.” Many organizations have hotlines, but the supporting program reports are […]
July 29, 2020
Following years of scandals within several United States Olympic Committee National Governing Bodies (NGBs), the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has hired its first Chief […]
July 1, 2020
The NBA, in announcing its restart plan for the 2019-20 season, did not specifically refer to it as a compliance program, notwithstanding it has many of […]
June 8, 2020
While sports officials have not been formally designated “essential workers” during the COVID-19 pandemic, they certainly remain essential to all sports organizations now in the process […]
May 6, 2020
No country in the world has the array of sports available to the public as does the United States. Whether one is an actual participant or […]
April 22, 2020
According to a recent report in the New York Times (the “Times”), after years of investigations and indictments, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) handed […]
March 19, 2020
Washington Post writer Matt Bonesteel reports that, according to charging documents, more than two dozen horse racing industry employees have been charged with participating in a […]
March 9, 2020
At first blush, trying to find something positive about the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal is like the proverbial “finding a needle in a haystack.” However, after […]
January 21, 2020
After receiving Major League Baseball’s (MLB) blockbuster report on the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal, team owner and chairman, Jim Crane, announced at a press conference on […]
January 6, 2020
By: David D. Dodge Historically, the main focus of health care fraud investigations in the U.S. has been on insurance, drug and medical fraud – mostly […]